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Summary

Description

Robert Little, 1890. Single storey, irregular T-plan, gothic gabled school, converted to offices. Rock-faced squared and snecked rubble and sandstone ashlar with ashlar long and short quoins. Deep sandstone base course and eaves course. Shouldered, pointed-arch and trefoil openings, buttresses, hoodmoulds with label-stops, relieving arches, stone transoms and mullions, stop-chamfered arrises.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, 5-bay. Slightly advanced gable to centre with 3 transomed, bipartite windows and common stepped hoodmould, centre bipartite taller with flanking 2-stage buttresses; small, hoodmoulded pointed-arch window in gablehead and further window to each return. Bays to right and left of centre with small finialled gablet with raised centre transomed, tripartite window breaking eaves and flanking bipartite windows; advanced outer gables each with 2 transomed windows flanking taller 2-stage buttress, all under relieving arch, and trefoil opening in gablehead.

S ELEVATION: advanced gable to left of centre with 2 windows flanking full-height, slightly advanced chimney breast, window on return to right and modern doorway (main entrance) in re-entrant angle to left, finialled gablet with raised centre transomed, tripartite window breaking eaves beyond to left and 3-stage chimney breast with flanking windows on return gable to outer left. 5 bays to right with window gablet as above breaking eaves to centre, 2 windows each to flanking bays.

N ELEVATION: symmetrical fenestration with centre gablet as above, and lower modern extension projecting from link to right of centre.

W WING: projecting from centre rear of principal block.

W ELEVATION: 7-bay elevation of rectangular-plan block terminating W wing. Small, finialled gablet with window gablet as above to centre bay, 3 windows each to flanking bays; finialled, gabled bays to returns as outer bays to E elevation, and with drinking fountain (see below) to outer right.

S ELEVATION: finialled, gabled bay to left (abutting return W elevation) with 2-leaf boarded timber door in hoodmoulded, pointed-arch opening with 'INFANTS' carved at doorhead; bipartite window with relieving arch to right and blocked, small, pointed-arch opening in gablehead; symmetrical fenestration to right.

N ELEVATION: symmetrical fenestration and window gablet as above to right of centre.

Small-pane glazing patterns in top-opening timber windows. Graded grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped stepped skews with moulded skewputts. Decorative cast-iron finials.

INTERIOR: segmental-headed openings, plain cornicing and boarded dados. Open beam ceilings with corbelled brackets.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN: semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls and saddleback-coped boundary walls with railings. Decorative cast-iron drinking fountain.

Statement of Special Interest

Building currently (1996) used by Fife Council as employee development, social and community care training centre. Room to left of centre in E block formerly science laboratory with mezzanine floor.

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